“Why be afraid about your sins, when you know you have not the strength to avoid them all? Hope in the Lord, for I will confess to him.” This encouragement effects some healing at once, and the rest of its sins are purged by faithful confession. You have good cause to fear if you claim to be just, and do not make your own the plea in another psalm, Do not sit in judgment on your servant (Ps 142(143):2). Why this prayer, Do not sit in judgment on your servant? Because I need your mercy. If you hand
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